Renai LeMay
Monday, 24 May 2010 10:15
The Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) late last week claimed that technology support staff at Australia’s flagship research agency would face a round of about 40 to 50 redundancies as the IT budget was frozen.
“On Tuesday CSIRO Information Management and Technology (IM&T) management started a national tour of sites delivering the bad news to staff that there will be a significant number of redundancies and that nearly all of IM&T will have to participate in a “spill and fill” process to try and keep their jobs in a proposed “secret” new IM&T organisational structure,” said the union in a statement issued last week.
It is believed the ‘spill and fill’ term refers to a process where employees will be asked to re-apply for jobs in a new organisational structure — a common industrial technique used by large organisations rationalising their workforce.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is Australia’s peak scientific research group. Its top IT executive is Property & Information Services director David Toll.
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